PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Candid Camera, Peer Pressure, Realistic Conflict Theory
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The effect that humans have with each other. We do not live life by ourselves. The part that studies the social interactions of humans = social psychology. Humans are social creatures even those of us who strive to be unique still want to be a part of a group. In fact, several experiments show that humans have a strong tendency to conform when they find themselves in groups . Solomon ash experimented a lot with this. Confederates: people who seem to be subjects but who work with the experimenter in some way. Conformity was found between the people who were saying the answers between them. The candid camera also found conformity between people (or peer pressure) Milgram"s (1963) study is perhaps one of the most shocking of all psychological experiments. Milgram thought that the acts that germany did during wwii said a lot about the people of germany.
